We attend quilt lessons to encompass ourselves with different like-minded fabric-enthusiasts who get all excited when somebody begins speaking about their “stash” and the way they “retailer” it. Now, taken out-of-context in combined firm, these phrases might increase some eyebrows. However you recognize what I imply—it’s enjoyable speaking cloth, isn’t it?
As of late we’ve got choices as to how we attend quilt lessons, how we meet cloth of us, how we share our time and concepts. Each on-line and in-person lessons are nice methods of studying that we now have entry to—every good for their very own causes and I discover it an attention-grabbing steadiness that I get pleasure from educating lessons each methods. However this 12 months, 2024, the borders between on-line and in-person began to blur.
In January, three of my college students—self-named “Susan’s Angels”—determined to attend my Tucson class after assembly and turning into good mates by my on-line lessons. The whole Tucson class was nice, however seeing how these three deepened their friendship throughout that week was pretty. In images above and under are: my Angels (left to proper in group picture)—Mary McKay, Grace Crocker, me, and Brenda Carter; completed quilts for show-and-share that had been all begun and completed on-line; Brenda’s husband Cal; and Grace’s daughter, Bonnie. Appeared like I knew all of them fairly effectively earlier than ever giving them a hug.
One other group, under, who had met in a web-based class and have become mates—the “Zookeepers”—continued weekly Zoom conferences lengthy after the category with me had ended. Final month in September, they received collectively at one among their properties for a multi-day in-person reunion—in out of doors picture under, left to proper; Catriona Sterling (touring from Scotland), LeahGrace Kayler, Ros Pettit, and Sylvie Aguilar. I used to be in a position to spend a day visiting with Catriona myself, and final 12 months Catriona gave a tour of Edinburgh (together with a go to to see my “Tickled Pink” rhino in an exhibit) to my Angel Mary and her husband Frank (all of us in selfies under).
There are increasingly more connections being made on this world of material collage—as we collect a method or one other (or each) to study and revel in one another’s firm. It’s all good. Hope you may be part of me subsequent 12 months in a category, or two.
Dwell On-line Lessons
For my on-line lessons, my husband Tom Allen, works with me all through every day (although separate rooms and computer systems) as he facilitates my potential to flow into from one individual to the following, and discussing their progress by images despatched to Tom, for me to then view and annotate in every session. 2025 would be the fifth 12 months we’ve been providing these 5 (consecutive) day lessons and, we’ve been informed, we’re fairly darn good at it.
See this weblog submit for particulars of 2024’s Dwell On-line Lessons and hyperlinks to Dwell On-line Lessons. Peruse extra “NOT on the Street” on-line class posts right here.
January 20-24, 2025
Dwell On-line Class—All Ranges, Animals Solely
REGISTER HERE
Most Class Measurement: 12
Value: $995
March 10-14, 2025
Dwell On-line Class—Intermediate-Superior
Most Class Measurement: 8
Value: $1,495
To Register: This class is for skilled college students on the intermediate or superior stage. You need to have a grasp of the basics of material collage earlier than beginning this class, ideally by taking a previous class with Susan, or having labored by the Grasp Class or different eWorkshop. Please submit your request to register to Tom ([email protected]) and he’ll ship you the hyperlink to register or ask for additional data. Thanks.
June 23-27, 2025
Dwell On-line Class—All Ranges, Animals Solely
REGISTER HERE
Most Class Measurement: 12
Value: $995
November 17-21, 2025
Dwell On-line Class—Intermediate-Superior
Most Class Measurement: 8
Value: $1,495
To Register: This class is for skilled college students on the intermediate or superior stage. You need to have a grasp of the basics of material collage earlier than beginning this class, ideally by taking a previous class with Susan, or having labored by the Grasp Class or different eWorkshop. Please submit your request to register to Tom ([email protected]) and he’ll ship you the hyperlink to register or ask for additional data. Thanks.
Please notice: Pre-requisite of any 5-day class: possession of Susan Carlson’s On-line Grasp Class—a reference guide for the beginning-to-end cloth collage approach. Particularly helpful with each pre-class and post-class data. Pupil low cost of $30 off full worth of $199. Possession is “endlessly,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom at [email protected] when you have questions, and to get your low cost code.
What’s Included in a 5-Day Dwell On-line Class:
Tom and I try to make the Dwell On-line Material Collage expertise particular and totally different in its personal method. Along with the benefit (and price financial savings) of attending from the consolation of your personal residence—no journey concerned and entry to your cloth stash—we’ve added the next menu of perks.
By way of our on-line lessons every pupil receives:
Pre-Class Teaching
Particular person teaching classes reside with Susan to get you higher ready for sophistication and to familiarize you with the Zoom platform.
Day by day Class Movies
Pre-recorded movies of every day class demonstrations on the method of material collage are yours to maintain and evaluation each earlier than and lengthy after our week collectively has ended.
One-on-One Suggestions
The majority of the day is taken up with one-on-one suggestions. I exploit Zoom to annotate images that you just ship to Tom all through the day.
A Material Pack for Material Collage
I’ve been curating particular 10-fabric collections—mailed to each Dwell On-line pupil for the reason that week-long lessons started in 2021—colourful and useful designs which will turn out to be useful throughout the week, or to horde for a later challenge if not.
Pre-Class Meet and Greet
Meet your classmates in a pre-class Sunday night social. This assembly additionally serves to additional familiarize everybody with our Zoom classroom format.
Mid-Week After Class Social Hour and Present and Share
On a selected night after class, we chill with beverage and meals to calm down and get to know our classmates higher. Normally everybody sends us additional images to share a few of their previous work in cloth.
Day by day Walkthrough of Pupil Progress
On the finish of every class day we return and go to the start and ending images of everybody’s topics—oohing and aahing on the nice progress and classes realized as we labored collectively.
Return of Comply with-Alongside Lessons!
These easy-going, cut-loose Zoom lessons happen over 4 consecutive Thursday nights. Comply with-along as I lead you thru the creation of a Fantastical Fish in February and a Fascinating Bug or Butterfly in the summertime. Try the data under and examine your calendars to see if you happen to can be part of us. By the best way, Thursday night time displays are all the time recorded, and video hyperlinks are despatched to all registrants to discuss with every time desired.
These cloth collage initiatives which are designed and paced to get you began in your murals. I choose material that, as Tom says, are gateway medicine into the material collage course of—versatile and low-stress designs to emphasise the playfulness of this system.
Every presentation begins with a slide present to get you going or to catch you up with the earlier week’s progress on the collage I’m engaged on, after which proceed with a reside demonstration. There can be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage of us to look at, hear, and ask questions throughout our time collectively. Then I give “homework” for individuals who want to proceed engaged on their very own bug challenge.
Included in every Comply with-Alongside Class:
• 4 reside displays of demonstration and instruction
• Query and reply intervals
• Free fish, bug, or butterfly sample to decide on and work from (relying on which class you join)
• Recordings of all classes—yours to maintain to discuss with at any time
• Supplies checklist to get you going instantly
February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2025 — 7 pm, Japanese Time
Fantastical Material Collage Fish Zoom Comply with-Alongside
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Value: $78
For Extra Info: Fantastical Fish Material Collage—February Outcomes! Half 1 (consists of hyperlinks to Components 2 by 4)
Should you’re searching for a contemporary and inventive begin to the New 12 months, right here’s a step-by-step approach to play with the material collage approach. This Thursday Night time sequence scheduled for February can be a break in routine to only play with cloth utilizing a topic I’ve been keen on for many years—fish—they arrive in all shapes, sizes, and colours, which suggests something goes. Should you’ve been desirous to “minimize unfastened and let go,” right here’s your probability. Every week I’ll be giving a reside demo with Q&A as I take you from starting to finish of a fantastical fish collage—utilizing your personal prized cloth stash.
In between the Thursday classes, you may apply the steps lined to your personal fishy cloth creation. As a registrant you’ll obtain a code for a free fish sample from my on-line store to comply with alongside as you play with your personal cloth stash—however you’re welcome in fact to make use of your personal fish design, or simply “waft” of your cloth.
July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2025 — 7 pm, Japanese Time
Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside
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Value: $78
For Extra Info: Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside—Has Begun! and Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside Outcomes: Pupil Material Collage Outcomes 3! (with hyperlinks to Components 1 and a couple of)
I can be taking a “minimize unfastened” method in my displays—similar as with the fish class—this time making a collage mild, ethereal, and gratifying as butterflies and bugs are themselves. On the finish of every session, I end with “homework” that may be labored on right here and there inside the coming week.
As with all our Thursday Night time classes, a recording hyperlink can be emailed the following night to all registrants to evaluation or watch later if you happen to can not be part of us reside.
In-Individual Lessons
Registration for these lessons are open—EXCEPT for the September, 2025, two week Bar Harbor, Maine class (coming quickly!)
Please notice: Pre-requisite of any 5-day class: possession of Susan Carlson’s On-line Grasp Class—a reference guide for the beginning-to-end cloth collage approach. Particularly helpful with each pre-class and post-class data. Pupil low cost of $30 off full worth of $199. Possession is “endlessly,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom at [email protected] when you have questions, and to get your low cost code.
Material Collage Photographs with MISA in Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 31-April 4, 2025
All Ranges
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
For my 2022 Santa Fe Class weblog submit write-ups—Half 1 right here and Half 2 right here
Woodland Ridge Retreat
Might 28-June 1, 2025
Mixture Intermediate/Superior and All-Ranges Class
Class is full however click on right here to be added to the waitlist
Click on right here for my Woodland Ridge Retreat weblog submit write-ups (take your choose!)
Material Collage Immersion with MISA—a 10-Day Class in Bar Harbor, Maine
September 8-19, 2025—All Ranges
REGISTRATION PAGE WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK!
Till then, e-mail your “Expression of Curiosity” on this class to: [email protected]
For my 2024 Bar Harbor Class weblog submit write-ups—Half 1 right here and Half 2 right here
Per week isn’t sufficient. That’s what I hear repeatedly on the finish of one among my 5-day lessons, college students need extra. And now, they can get extra—extra class days in the identical location, extra class days with out extra journey, extra class days with a 2-day break in-between the 2 weeks of sophistication time—day off to discover the realm and re-charge.
Whereas offering “extra” cloth collage, this format will even permit college students to work at their very own tempo. For some, 5 days feels rushed they usually’d slightly unfold the work out over extra days. Others could have a purpose to get farther alongside within the course of. Regardless, everybody may have the ten days of my assist and steering to fulfill their cloth collage targets for his or her challenge.
Week 1: Getting began and making good progress on key components or options of every individual’s chosen topic—studying increasingly more every day, on the right way to work with my cloth collage approach.
Week 2: Immersing and stress-free into the collage course of whereas taking topics farther—experimenting with and deciding on background prospects, studying the place extra particulars may very well be added in second or third drafts, having the time to play with additions akin to sheer materials to control the sunshine and darkish values discovered within the collage topic.
Susan Carlson Material Collage Travels to Italy: Beneath the Tuscan Solar(portrait)
October 19-24, 2025
Tuscany, Italy: Serendipitous Material Collage with Susan Carlson
All-Ranges, 6 spots remaining
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Click on right here for my 2025 Tuscan Solar weblog submit!